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Old 06-12-2007
How to grep at a given postion
All,

I need to grep for a value between particular positions:

Eg:

ACME CORPORATION 3 213.89

I need to look out for the value 3 betwen postions 20 and 26.

Any ideas.

Thanks
KP.
# 2  
Old 06-12-2007
King,
See if works for you:
Code:
grep '^.\{19,25\}3' input_file

# 3  
Old 06-12-2007
Shell,

Thanks
for the reply.

Is there any way I could parameterize the value (ie. the value 3) in the above step.

Thanks
KP
# 4  
Old 06-12-2007
Code:
parameter=5
grep "^.\{19,25\}${parameter}" input_file

 
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